"You Could Grow Orchids in There" / That's not Leadership

President Obama, is a new brand type of leader. He is going to do things differently in Washington.

For example, he has decided to forgo the outmoded tradition of entering buildings through doors.

(Oval office, no less. Photo here. Might I remind everyone that there was recently a "door photo" that embarassed Bush. Difference was, Bush was trying to open a locked DOOR, -- pictured in the same link.)

But that's just an aside. The REAL story is here:

The Obama that waxed eloquent only last May about the need to change our habits:

We can't drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we're living in the desert or we're living in the tundra, and then just expect every other country is going to say OK, you know, you guys go ahead keep on using 25 percent of the world's energy, even though you only account for 3 percent of the population, and we'll be fine. Don't worry about us. That's not leadership.
-[Emphasis is mine. The oratory is, you know, simply breathtaking.]

Is the same Obama that was seen without his jacket, at his first day of work in the Oval Office.

Is it because he was working THAT HARD for the little guy? Was it to put other staffers at ease with a less formal atmosphere?

Nope.

Here his advisor explains:

WASHINGTON — The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat. “He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.

Hey Mr. President. To quote no less an authority than yourself:

"We can't ... keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times... That's not [you know] leadership."

You can't really argue with yourself, now, can you?

You being that all-new-and-different-sort-of-leader would NEVER demand that we do as you Say, not as you Do...

Right...?

Climate Change Cult Update

Poor Al Gore.

The weather just doesn't like to cooperate with his speeches.

It seems he may have to call off his Senate F0reign Relations Committee meeting.

He won't be able to warn of the dire consequences of Global Warming (the cultists want you to say 'climate change' now because it's more difficult to refute generic change). There is a Winter Storm Watch in effect in DC. (h/t Drudge)

To twist the knife a little, here are some other related headlines currently on the BBC "Latest Headlines" feed:

Tough Love for Car Industry (Obama is throwing the US automakers under the bus in favor of "green" policy.) Reducing emissions by closing factories, Barry? Your union backers are going to be awfully put-out.

'Climate Hope' in Economic Plans

[Funny, hope was once a firm thing, anchored in a future event in which one had confidence. You know, like the hope students have that "Spring Break" is coming, if they can just hang on until then, or like children anticipating Christmas morning.]

I especially like the confidence they place in off-setting. It allows you to pay someone else to do the "right thing" (by somebody's definition) while letting you continue to do the 'wrong thing' with a clean conscience. Call it eco-indulgences where once the coin rang in the coffer to spring souls from "purgatory" (And it took a certain German monk to undo that mess...)

Entire nations can do the moral equivalent by buying potentially fraudulent carbon off-sets. (There was a clever parody of this scheme, paying someone else to be true to their spouse, so you could cheat on yours. If it doesn't make sense for marriage...)

But wait, just when we are told to have hope in the change that we are hoping will change us and the world that so desperately needs us to stop changing it -- or something -- we are left with another report. Global Warming is Irreversible. But, what about all the hope the previous stories about the socialist solutions were supposed to fill me with? It's futile, but we have hope anyway? That's settled science for you!

[Breaking: Germany to dump 6 tonnes of Iron Sulphate into the South Atlantic to "help stop Global Warming." That's Iron and Sulphur. Sin Tonnes of Iron and Sulphur into the Ocean! Hey Germany, there's a story about an old woman who swallowed a fly. There's a moral to it. Look it up!]

Just to round things out:

SNOW IN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES! (UAE is experiencing snow for only the Second time in their history!)

I'm sure the fact the the world in presently in a cooling trend, that the other planets in our solar system are also in cooling trends, and we are experiencing unusually low solar activity has NO bearing on the convictions of the eco-cult demanding we be penitent for our sins.

We must Propitiate Gaia's wrath, after all.